What Benefit is there to Reckless Driving?

That reckless drivers are good drivers may very well be true. It requires great driving skills, anyway, to be able to weave through traffic, more so, to counter its flow. Besides the possible great driving skills, reckless drivers also possess a couple of other things that many other motorists do not (and hopefully will never) have: the willful and wanton disregard for the safety of persons and properties.

Reckless driving is nothing more than sheer lack of respect for others and the law. They know very well that behaving recklessly on the road is very dangerous, yet they do it. And while anyone can choose to be reckless while behind the wheel, records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the ones most prone to this irresponsible behavior are drivers aged between 16 and 19. Every year, as many as 292,000 teen drivers are given emergency treatment in hospitals due to injuries, while about 2,650 others never get to see a new day again.

One example of this deadly behavior is the fatal accident that occurred on April 22, 2015, wherein a Toyota Prius that was driven by a female teen, collided with a truck that had three foreign senior citizen passengers. The accident occurred before 2:30 a.m. along Highway 50 near Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento. The accident claimed all four lives – the three men, as well as that of the female teen driver who was driving drunk and on the wrong side of the highway.

Accidents and injuries due to reckless driving are totally preventable since people know and can control what they are doing. Often, victims and their families, as well as traffic enforcers can only wonder why some individuals drive recklessly.

According to the law firm Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC, people who willfully operate their vehicles with such complete disregard for the safety of others cause some of the most dangerous accidents imaginable. That being said, reckless drivers may be held financially liable for all the pain and suffering they cause.

In the event of an accident, however, a Houston injury attorney tells victims to keep in mind that insurance companies will find ways to pay as little as possible for your injuries. They are not in business to be fair to you; thus, make sure that you do not accept the settlement that they offer.